Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

Jackhammer 07 Apr 2008 22:13

I bricked my wdmb tb drive. I am not sure what went wrong, but I enabled ssh and disabled mionet. I did it exactly as mentioned on Martin Hinners page. I also installed Optware. When I powered it down to move it, it never came back up. Drive spins, but no blue lights and no IP. I removed the drive and accessed it with ubuntu live cd and removed all of the settings that I changed. Still no go. All I want to do is get my 485gigs of data off of the drive. I will then reformat it and stick it in my HP HomeServer to add an extra terabyte. But when I mount the partition, my folders are "locked" and I cannt access them.

Any ideas???
Thanks in advance.

Jackhammer

Re: Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

alephsmith 07 Apr 2008 22:44

It is likely that your folders are owned by www-data, you may need to be root on your Ubuntu box to access them.

Try prepending sudo (switch user do) to your commands when copying/moving the files. This will give you root privileges and allow you access to file you do not own.

P.S. want to send the enclosure to me when you empty it?

Re: Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

Jackhammer 07 Apr 2008 23:02

You are correct on the www-data. I have mounted the partition, but how can I browse the files to move them.
I have about every major distro, kubuntu, ubuntu, pc linux 2007, suse, knoppix, and dream linux 3.1. I currently have dreamlinux loaded. Is there a way to change owner, or at least enable me to browse the partition?

Thx

Re: Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

alephsmith 08 Apr 2008 03:00

Is the partition mounted? If yes the on Ubuntu do the following:

launch Nautilus with root privileges:

gksudo nautilus

You should now be able to browse to the folder and copy and paste as usual.

Alternatively, use the command line

sudo cp /path/to/copy /path/to/destination

Re: Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

mozetti 08 Apr 2008 07:36

Just wanted to let you know, sudo means Super User Do

Re: Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

alephsmith 08 Apr 2008 08:33

Irrespective of what it may or may not 'stand for', that is hardly a complete description of what it does.
From the sudo man pages:

sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user

(emphasis added)

While it may grant superuser rights, it is not restricted to just the superuser, but any user using the -u flag.

Moreover sudo = su "do" where su refers to substitute/switch user (from su man pages and wikipedia)

All of which has nothing to do with the actual problem.

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Re: Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

etsme 08 Apr 2008 06:16

Hello JACKHAMMER,
Same thing here, its the Martin Hinners SSH enable on start script that does it, I bricked mine twice and the second time the onlything I done on my 1TB is the Martin Hinners SSH, use the recovery procedure http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/rescue-procedure I removed my drive and stuck it into a mates pc coz mine only has IDE drives, you need SATA connections.

anyway first things first I would download a live CD so you can boot up in a linux enviroment and carry out the recovery from there.
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/download.php?lang=en&link=http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/urz/netz/ftp.html

then once you have your box up and running again do this prcedure to get SSH to run on startup
http://www.mybook-linux.co.nr/sshaccess.html

all this worked for me, good luck and let me know how you get on

over and out

Re: Help with bricked WDMybook single 1tb drive

blight 08 Apr 2008 16:35

i'm not so sure about enabling SSH does it. I just got the mybook. got ssh running. then found out i couldnt write to the drive.

have a look at cannot-delete-files-read-only-dev-md4-on-mybook-we-i-1tb

I think the way WD prepare the drives might be at fault. Because I had only copied about a gig of stuff to the drive and it had errors. Its a shame that i couldn't just run fsck. out of curiosity anyone with the smaller drives get fsck to work?

blight